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But back of it all, I know, is the hand and the heart of the Scotch Preacher. The more I think of it the more I think that our gunsmith possesses many of the qualities of true greatness. He has the serenity, and the humour, and the humility of greatness. He has a real faith in God. He works, he accepts what comes.
The staid pastor had but little recreation, and I am afraid I was always glad that Ulrica Schumacher, the frisky sister of the gunsmith, almost always beat him at chess. He was succeeded by a man I loved, and I wonder I did not join his church. We were good friends and used to go out trout-fishing together. He was a delightful man, but when he was in the pulpit he shrank and shriveled.
Old 'Natchez, the gunsmith, tells me one's a tricky weapon ... discharges now and then before the trigger's pressed." "Why that would be murder," Alice spoke aghast. "You must find David's seconds and warn them." "I've tried all afternoon to locate them ... they're hidden ... afraid of arrest."
Garry hung up the receiver, and then turned and asked the Chief if he was satisfied. "Indeed I am, and I wish you boys all the luck in the world in your new station," said the Chief. The three boys then took their leave. They returned immediately to Canal Street to see if they were still in time to buy a rifle for Phil from the old gunsmith.
"Some of our people, Alex Barrett here, the gunsmith, and Stan Markovitch, the distiller, and Harrison Grant, the iron-worker get their living by making things. How'd they make out, after your machines came in here?" Verner Hughes asked. "We've thought of that. We had that problem with other groups we've helped," Loudons said.
They tried all methods of creasing, all variations of the spiral of the groove; every town had its gunsmith, who experimented in almost every gun he made, and who was generally one of the best shots and hunters in the neighborhood; and often the hunter, despairing of getting a gun to suit him in any other way, went to work himself, and wrought out a clumsy, but unerring gun, in which, perhaps, was the germ of some of the latest improvements in scientific gunnery.
He chose a route through back-streets, and walked quickly, but as he passed Quandrill's, the local maker of guns and fishing-rods, a thought struck him. He stopped and entered the shop. "Good-morning," he said to the gunsmith, who stood behind the counter; "have you any pistols? I want one small enough to carry in the pocket, but yet something more powerful than a toy."
He was one of the twenty-six children of a gunsmith, who exercised his trade where hunting and war must have given it a full encouragement in a small frontier settlement near the mouth of the river Kennebec.
When he came in to call on us that evening after supper I could see that he had something important on his mind; but I let him get to it in his own way. "David," he said finally, "Carlstrom, the gunsmith, is going home to Sweden." "At last!" I exclaimed. Dr. McAlway paused a moment and then said hesitatingly: "He says he is going." Harriet laughed.
The poulterers and fruiterers were by many thought the most beautiful shops in town, from the variety of fancies displayed in the disposal of their goods; and I admired at the truly Italian ingenuity of a gunsmith, who had found the art of turning his instruments of terror into objects of delight, by his judicious manner of placing and arranging them.
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